• We can have many new things but we cannot have a new life, unless we come back to Christ.

The Bible says only in Jesus Christ can we have a NEW LIFE – a new creation.

• It’s not an EXTERNAL change – I still look the same. It is internal.

• I experience God’s love, joy, peace, and hope. These inspire me.

• Man cannot see these things. The man who looks gorgeous on the outside may be a miserable man. The one who looks shabby may be one of the happiest men around.

So before we are too drawn away by the sights and sounds of this world, tell yourself – “I need to hang on to Jesus.” Do you want to be really happy in life, try getting to know Jesus more.

• Listen to Jesus - John 10:10 “I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.”

• I am already living, why give me life? Obviously it not about just living - we can be living without a life, without meaning and purpose, don’t know what you are living for.

• Jesus refers to an abundant life, a full life. In John 17:3 He says, “Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.”

Man has made great improvements over the Centuries. The speed at which we are gaining knowledge is amazing. Half of all that we learn in the history of mankind was acquired in the last 10 years! We have made great strides in education, science, technology – the new gadgets we have.

• Yet life has not been better. Life is made easy but not better.

• We live with the same worries and fears, probably MORE. We worry about not having enough; we fear being diagnosed with cancer of some kind; we have relationship problems – at school, at home, at work, even among courting friends. We have more broken families today, a growing number of suicides and divorces today than ever. And we see more violence. We need to have anti-terrorism drills.

• Life has not improved. Why? Because man has fallen away from God.

So if you really want a good life – get back to Jesus. Talk to Him, and keep talking to Him.

Jesus will make you NEW.

It’s like an old house – He did not renovate it, He rebuilt it. Jesus describes in John 2:19, "Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days." The life we have in Christ is an entirely NEW creation.